Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data release train Hopper SR5. This release includes a lot of updates across all of the modules including the modules for JPA, KeyValue, Cassandra, SOLR, Gemfire, Neo4J, MongoDB, Envers, Redis, ElasticSearch, Couchbase, and updates to Spring Data REST and Spring Data Commons.

Spring Cloud co-lead Spencer Gibb just announced the Spring Cloud CLI launcher. This is one of my favorite new utilities - it makes getting to the punch even easier with Spring Cloud! Install it and then run spring cloud configserver dataflow eureka h2 hystrixdashboard kafka zipkin and you’ll have those services running on the appropriate ports! Simple.